DRUGS/MELANIA: “In a theater where Barry Manilow revs up shrieking Fanilows and Wayne Newton crooned ‘Danke Schoen,’ first lady Melania Trump took the stage at Westgate Las Vegas Tuesday [3-5-19] to talk opioids at a town hall and to answer questions via social media. On the second day of her two-day trip to the West to promote her FLOTUS causes, Trump spoke to a half-filled theater crowd that included Newton himself and an Elvis impersonator at a town hall moderated by former Fox News host Eric Bolling in the International Theater. Wearing a belted navy-blue dress with a pussy bow, Trump repeated a claim that she made at a similar opioid town hall last year in Virginia: That the Trump administration considers the opioid epidemic ‘the worst drug crisis in American history.’ And she insisted the media should do better in covering it.”
–Maria Puente, “Viva Las Vegas: Melania Trump talks opioids in Barry Manilow’s and Wayne Newton’s theater,” USA Today, March 6, 2019 11:28 am